Learn to build and calibrate your own open source 3D printer over the weekend with this comprehensive video course by mechanical engineer Bram de Vries.
This course is all about building your own open source 3D printer in a weekend! You’ll learn to assemble it, calibrate like a pro, and deal with any hiccups along the way. By the end, you'll be ready to create 3D prints and wow your friends!
Build your own open source 3D printer over the weekend
This video course teaches you how to make a 3D printer for yourself and calibrate and adjust it perfectly. You will get to know how to solve and prevent common problems and discover alternative solutions to tailor your 3D printer to your liking and needs. You will learn how to assemble parts for your 3D printer and build it with ordinary tools and skills. The course starts off with assembling of the Y-Unit and the XZ-Unit before moving on to the extruder and wiring. Next, you will be shown how to execute some simple calibrations and suddenly you're printing in 3D with your very own 3D printer. By the end of the video, you will be a junior 3D printing expert. This 3D printer used for demonstration in this course is especially designed for easy assembly and use, and gives you a head start in building your own 3D-printers for now and for the future.
Bram de Vries is a mechanical engineer and social scientist dedicated to open hardware. He has previously worked at Demotech, developing pro-poor technologies in Guatemala, Ethiopia, and India.
The overarching aim of his work is to open up innovations and make them accessible. For the last four years, his focus has moved from water pumps to open source 3D printing. He also tutors Blender courses.
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Easy and straightforward
Yes, It is a new experience for me.
Having some knowledge with 3D printers I really hope to learn more as I go through this course,, I have looked for more resources from I3 Berlin and they have been discontinued from production and though the I3 printer are mostly universal there have been some parts that were hard to follow. I went with the I3 clone Anet A8 and it is close enough to the instructor to where it all makes sense.
I already have many printers but to do this is most interesting and presented very good as well.
It was wonderful. i like it.
I would really would have liked to build the Berlin I3, My searching came up empty. The course is excellent, it helped immensely even while building a Geeetech I3. I expected that from a German developer. I love the attention to details.
Great course
It was a good basic course and explained how to put together only one stile of printer, which you can't buy. There is no way to obtain information on that.
The printer shown is no longer in production, so you can no longer get the kit to build along with the course. It would be nice to see an update at the beginning letting people know that this is the case, instead, we're just left to find this out at the end of the course. Yes, the concepts DO carry forward to newer kits and printer models, but most of those either come already assembled, or use completely different methods for assembly.
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Paul P.
Very informative and educational, I am enjoying the wire spectrum of knowledge that is being poured out.